91 Responses to “Awkward Family Story: The IM”

This reminds me of when my mom would IM me in college. Sweet story. Also, one time, I was out, but I was logged into AIM. Mom IMed and somebody was in the room and typed that I was naked. I walked in quite embarrassed because I would never be naked outside of a bathroom.

yeah my little brother often does things like this commom for boys from what i got of the story he was on a trail with someone a rooster was there and a dog showed up and started chasing it then someone shot at the dog then he was announcing it was dinner time and he went to go eat lol so often i am chatting with my little brother and dinner comes and i will have a comment just like this in the middle of what he is telling me and then bam he’s gone lol

This was my post. I had just recently taught my son how to IM. He is an excellent speller, that is the only reason I “poked” at him for his grammer.

My parents live on several acres in the very northeastern corner on Washinton State. They have many chickens/roosters as a supplement to their income selling the eggs, as for they are retired. Perhaps it did not strike some as funny, however it did get a great laugh from our family.

My father did not kill the dog, nor was he trying to. He simply fired off his shotgun to get the dog to dismiss itself from the property.

Annoying username. Boring story. Texting is not the same as the learned skill of typing (which I cannot do btw), so the 9 year old is not proficient in typing, only texting. Had the read this several times to understand where the awkward is supposed to be and it never really happens. I am not impressed. Give us more Marney!

I didn’t delete my comment. The site did. And it was sarcasm. I’ll be it bad sarcasm from being early in the morning, but sarcasm none the less. and it should be “It’s” not “its” by the way if you want to go into correcting grammar.

If they cared about their “pet” they wouldn’t let it run loose, where it can chase and try to kill chickens.

The owner of the chickens is perfectly within their rights to shoot the dog. Once a dog starts chasing chickens, it won’t one day see the error of its ways and stop. If you’re going to own livestock, eventually you’re going to have to do something crappy like shoot some inconsiderate neighbor’s dog. Or I suppose you could just keep replacing dead chickens constantly.

Amazing to me how few people have any idea how the world works outside of the city.

Yep. My dad shot and killed a dog once because it was in our duck pen killing our ducks. We took that dog and threw it into a ravine. Sounds bad I know but these things happen. Keep your pets in your own yard or live with the consequences.

Don’t let your chickens run loose if you want to protect them from dogs. When we had chickens when I was a child, we had a large pen and hen house. It was probably traumatic for the child to see a dog shot.

sorry honey, i’ve lived in the country and once watched a dog savage one of my chickens when it was out pecking around. i threw rocks at him until he ran home, but i didn’t shoot him. remember, too many animals don’t have the good fortune to have caring “owners”. killing them punishes the dog who doesn’t know better, not the damn neglecters. i get tired of this tough-guy, “country justice you city-slickers don’t understand” posturing. same people who kill snakes and ravens and coyotes just because they’re in shotgun range. LAME.

When someone IMs it’s quick so grammar and spelling are not important. I think it’s cool the 9 year old is proficient in typing. I think the point of that story was to say the dog was shot BUT he added it as a footnote. It was funny that after the mom’s joke he clicked off. He probably did that because he was done (boys and men often do that) and not because she suggested they were going to eat dog.

I asked for a dictionary when I was twelve, too, anyway I’m fifteen now and it surprises me how many of my fellow classmates still can’t spell words we learned when we were ten. The use of conventions in my class is horrible!
And it was a weird conversation…